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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Don’t Let One Customer Kill Your Online Reputation

Startup Professionals Musings

See my previous article on “ Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup ” Michael Fertik and David Thompson bring this issue and many others together in their book “ Wild West 2.0. They can assist you by linking to positive and neutral content about you, thus displacing or minimizing the negative content.

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Set Your Online Reputation Before Someone Else Does

Startup Professionals Musings

See my Forbes article on “ Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup ” Michael Fertik and David Thompson outline this issue and others in their book “ Wild West 2.0.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. get the attention of the market they choose.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally ran on PEHub. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2

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Flying With A Wounded Wing: Why Twitter Still Has More Than A Chance

Tech Zulu Event

While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. Sometime in 2011, I started to notice that the content I was putting out on Twitter was not getting the attention that it used to. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. The word of mouth.